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The University of Southern Mississippi: Aaec Editorial Cartoons Digital Collect

For Students 9th - 10th
The Editorial Cartoon Digital Collection contains examples of the work of member artists of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). Created primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, the cartoons reflect changes in American...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Inside a Cartoonist's World

For Students 9th - 10th
From cave drawings to the Sunday paper, artists have been visualizing ideas- cartoons- for centuries. New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly walks us through the many stages every cartoon goes through, starting with an idea and turning into...
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Kentucky Educational Television

Kentucky Educational Television: Kentuckians in the Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
Profiles of Kentuckians involved with the arts provides information about arts-related jobs and pursuits. Positions covered range from professors and graphic designers to cartoonists and sculptors.
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International Institute of Social History

International Institute of Social History: Art to the People Albert Hahn

For Students 9th - 10th
From the exhibit at the International Institute of Social History, "Art to the People", the work of the Dutch Socialist cartoonist Albert Hahn, is examined with descriptions and images.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Chicago Tribune Cartoons

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Newseum: Pens and Needles: The Political Cartoons of Joel Pett

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a biography of Pulitzer Prize winner, Joel Pett, and see many of his editorial cartoons in either Shockwave or HTML.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk

For Students 9th - 10th
Internationally known artist Arthur Szyk detailed illustrations of Jewish themes. During WWII, he drew numerous cartoons and cariacatures of Nazi Germany.
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Indiana University

Indiana University: The War of 1812

For Students 9th - 10th
This site examines the work of two early American political cartoonists, who first came to prominence during the War of 1812: William Charles and William Elmes.
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Thomas Nast: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
Within the article about the President's impeachment is this brief article about cartoonist Thomas Nast, who started as a cartoonist during the Civil War, but saw his greatest influence in the take-down of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.
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Newspapers in Education

Ni Eonline: Cartoons for the Classroom: Draw Your Own Conclusions [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists developed this caption-writing exercise for a cartoon that lampoons voter apathy.
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Newspapers in Education

Ni Eonline: Cartoons for the Classroom: Cartoon Analysis Worksheet [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists developed this activity as a classroom handout to aid lessons in dissecting the visual and verbal messages of political cartoons.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Libraries:drawing From Life: Caricatures and Cartoons

For Students 9th - 10th
A website dedicated to displaying a selection of political cartoons and caricatures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes biographies of many famous cartoonists and commentaries on the cartoonist's style and interests.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Bill Mauldin

For Students 9th - 10th
This online testimonial praises the works of Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who passed away in 2003. After reading his biography, view this fantastic collection of some of his greatest works.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Oliphant's Anthem

For Students 9th - 10th
A Library of Congress online exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, Pat Oliphant. View over sixty cartoons and see why he is known as one of the most influential editorial cartoonists in America.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Herblock's History of Political Cartoons

For Students 9th - 10th
Outstanding online exhibition featuring the works of political cartoonist, Herb Block,the creator of the phrase "McCarthyism." Spanning seventy years, this exhibit of over one hundred of his works shows why this Pulitzer Prize winner was...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Edmund Valtman

For Students 9th - 10th
This Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist was a specialist of the Cold war era having actually lived in the USSR at the time. View some of his most famous cartoons in this online exhibit.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Editorial Cartoons by Ann Telnaes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An exhibit at the Library of Congress tracing the career of Pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist Ann Telnaes.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Herblock's Gift

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of Herb Block's Editorial Cartoons which were gifted to the Library of Congress. The archive includes records, clippings, photographs and various articles as well as 14,000 original drawings.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Shel Silverstein

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage focuses on Shel Silverstein, cartoonist, poet, playwrite. It provides biographical information about Silverstein, a list of his works, and links to two of his poems.
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Cartoon Prints

For Students 9th - 10th
A gateway to a collection of more than 500 prints, from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, which encompasses several forms of political editorializing. A wonderfully curated collection, with images, a summary of the historical...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Lampooning Injustice: Paul Conrad and Civil Rights

For Teachers 11th
In this lesson, 11th graders look at the work of Paul Conrad, a political cartoonist, who often explored issues around civil rights, including Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation. Includes background information for the...
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Library of Congress

Loc: See, Hear, and Sing Animation

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Library of Congress takes a look at the wacky world of cartoons, beginning with George Melies, who demonstrated that objects could be animated in film with a series of drawings, each drawn with slight changes.
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Newseum: Political Cartoons of David Horsey

For Students 9th - 10th
After reading some brief biographical information on editorial cartoonist David Horsey, check out the gallery of his original cartoons from the year 1999.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Thomas Nast

For Students 9th - 10th
Thomas Nast was the first influential American political cartoonist. Read about his transformation from an illustrator of the Civil War to one who took on Boss Tweed and the corruption of Tammany Hall.